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- Business Coalitions: a joint response to AIDS
- “UNAIDS has supported the development of a number of national business coalitions on HIV in regions heavily impacted by the epidemic,” said Peter Piot, Executive Director, UNAIDS. “Business Coalitions help to ensure that the response is coordinated and that knowledge and expertise is shared across the board, they are a valued and respected partner in the AIDS response.”
- Business and the AIDS response
- UNAIDS works closely with the private sector and recognises the significant contribution the business community makes to the global response to the AIDS epidemic. This week, world business leaders will come together at the World Economic Forum in Davos to discuss global priorities for 2008––including the business community’s contribution to the AIDS response.
- US Senate Committee discusses AIDS
- At a special hearing--'Meeting the Global Challenge of AIDS, TB and Malaria'--UNAIDS Executive Director Dr Peter Piot addressed the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) about AIDS, the work of UNAIDS to address the epidemic, and the critical difference that the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has made in the AIDS response.
- UN Secretary-General opens UNPlus exhibition
- In observance of World AIDS Day 2007, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened a photographic exhibition entitled "UN Plus" at the United Nations headquarters in New York with the members of UNPlus - the UN System HIV Positive Staff Group.
- AIDS focus at U.S. Evangelical Summit
- UNAIDS Executive Director Dr. Peter Piot spoke today at the Saddleback Church Global AIDS Summit in Lake Forest, California. Dr Piot noted the unique and important role in the global AIDS response of religious groups of all kinds, which provide HIV treatment, care and support in some of the remotest parts of the world.
- Translating AIDS knowledge
- It has been proven that people understand and retain information better when it is written in their own language. So when it comes to reaching as many people as possible with knowledge and information about AIDS making content available in a variety of languages is imperative.
- 11th European AIDS Conference opens in Madrid
- The 11th European AIDS Conference runs from 24-27 October in Madrid, Spain. The conference, held every other year and attended by several thousand delegates, focuses on issues related to HIV clinical research and care in Europe.
- Global Staff Meeting 2007 in Geneva
- The agenda of the meeting included among others, skills building workshops, group discussions, panelists' reflections, conferences as well as feedback and evaluation of all the activities.
- Invest in Women – It Pays
- At the Women Deliver conference in London (18 – 20 Oct 2007), UNAIDS Executive Director called for renewed political support and increased funding to make sure that women’s health become a national priority across the world. He stressed that “healthy mothers and children are key to slowing down the AIDS epidemic”
- European meeting discusses migration, TB and HIV
- Migration, mobile populations and tuberculosis were priority focus areas at the meeting of EU national AIDS Coordinators, organized by the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union. UNAIDS Deputy Director Michel Sidibe stressed that increased action in these areas as vital in the goal of universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.
- Business and AIDS
- The role of business in the AIDS response was discussed at a special symposium on ‘International visions on the future of health care in resource-poor settings’ organized by Heineken international in Amsterdam.
- UNAIDS pledges to help ‘make the money work’ for Global Fund
- World Leaders joined in Berlin, Germany on Thursday 27 September to announce their financial pledges to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria for the next three years.
- Global Fund Replenishment meeting opens in Berlin
- Delegates from donor countries and international organizations gathered in Berlin on Wednesday 26 September to begin the second of the Global Fund’s biennial meetings to raise funds for its programmes to provide essential HIV, tuberculosis and malaria services in developing countries.
- One year on: UNITAID celebrates achievements
- One year on since its establishment, the international drug purchase facility – UNITAID – is celebrating a number of key achievements including price reductions and increased delivery of AIDS treatment.
- UNAIDS Executive Director addresses US academia on AIDS
- UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot today participated in a forum at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, D.C., discussing the United States’ important role in the global AIDS response and the upcoming reauthorization of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. In addition to Dr. Piot, U.S. Representative Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) and Kent R. Hill of the U.S. Agency for International Development also spoke at the forum.
- The role of academia in the global AIDS response
- The important role of academic organizations in the global AIDS response was underlined on Tuesday 18 September in a special lecture given at Washington D.C.’s Howard University by UNAIDS Executive Director Dr Peter Piot.
- International Health Partnership launch
- Leaders from donor countries, funding organizations, developing nations, and international agencies are coming together in London today (Wednesday 5 September) to launch a new international partnership aimed at improving healthcare systems in the developing world.
- Scouts get the HIV message
- As part of the international scout jamboree held in Britain over the summer, UNAIDS ran workshops on HIV prevention, personal responsibility in HIV transmission and respect for the human rights of positive people.
- AIDS: agent for change
- “AIDS is forcing us to adopt new approaches, look at things differently, and transform the way we do things,” said UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot as he gave the 2007 Payne Lecture at America’s prestigious Stanford University on May 9
- Securing the future – advocating for children
- Children still remain largely the missing face from national and international political responses to AIDS. In response, the UNAIDS Secretariat and cosponsor UNICEF recently joined a group of advocates and activists from around the world.